NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has reportedly requested nearly $50 million per year in addition to the lifetime use of a private jet amid contract negotiations with the league. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell reportedly has requested nearly $50 million per year in addition to the lifetime use of a private jet amid contract negotiations with the league.Goodell, whose proposed contract with the NFL currently is undergoing an approval process, asked the league’s compensation committee in August to raise his salary from $30 million to $49.5 million per year, ESPN reported Sunday.

Goodell also reportedly asked to use a private jet for life, and also requested lifetime health insurance for his family.

One team owner, regarding the possibility Goodell possibly would leave his position, said “the problem” with the NFL is “no one is talking about games anymore.”“It’s about concussions, Jones vs. Goodell, [Ezekiel Elliott’s suspension], the anthem. No one is talking about football. It’s just killing the game,” the owner told ESPN.Another owner told the sports network that “Roger is defiant,” and they don’t believe he’ll “take a pay cut” or resign as commissioner of the NFL. Roger Goodell reportedly requests $50 million salary, lifetime private jet in contract talks | Fox News

During the past month the overall stock market is up more than 2% but shares of companies that broadcast NFL games--Comcast, Walt Disney, Fox, CBS--are all down between 1% to 8%.Ratings for the the NFL have been worse this season and attendance for some games has also been disappointing. The networks will pay over $5 billion this season to televise the NFL and were already facing unflattering margins on advertising profits. An article in The Hollywood Reporter reckons the drop in NFL ratings could trim the broadcaster's earnings by $200 million. Disney's ESPN, meanwhile, also continues to get hammered by cord-cutting. https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikeozanian/2017/09/23/nfl-broadcasting-stocks-slump-as-protests-rise-and-tv-ratings-slump/#22e55c584eec

Personally I think Roger Goodell is out of his mind wanting that much money in an organization he has turned into a downhill slide by his own doings from not enforcing rules about standing for the flag. . The NFL team owners should vote him out, he is ruining the game of football. No one is talking about games, but what they are protesting, which no one really knows exactly what its about. There is no voice to what they are protesting, that's the problem and Goodell is doing nothing for the game. Save the great game of football and put a new commissioner in his place.

Unless Owners like losing money they better vote out Goodell soon. Not surprised he dislikes Jerry Jones, this has all been about Goodell forcing his views on Americans. Its become a game of politics rather then football. Should get a New Commissioner that really loves the game of football

It was meant to raise awareness and show solidarity. People’s ridiculous over-reaction to it, and their ridiculous exaggeration of it, and their attempt to paint it as somehow against the military, is 100% about those people, not the players silently taking a knee and bothering no one.

Yes. You're more aware of injustice now than you were before. I mean, you'll deny it and deny there is injustice, but we all know you're more aware of it because you're talking against it at every opportunity.